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Old October 24th 10, 07:39 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 22:49:08 -0500, "Canuck"
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?"Troy" wrote in message ...

Nice image. Where did you get this one? I don’t know anything about this aircraft. It seems to be from the same era as the B-52. Is this an aircraft that didn’t make the cut and was dumped in favor of the 52?

Thanks!

N.


The YB-60 was a swept wing, turbojet powered follow-on to the B-36.
Note the similarity in the fuselage especially. Only one flew, and
the USAF chose the Boeing B-52 as its heavy jet bomber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_YB-60